Two killed when truck crashes into combine near Erie

(AP) Two people were killed when their pickup truck collided with a combine in southeast Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident happened Monday evening on a bridge over Canville Creek northwest of Erie.

The patrol says a vehicle driven by 67-year-old Michael Drake and 63-year-old Marilyn Drake, of Buffalo, Kansas, collided with the header of the combine.

The Drakes died at the scene. The driver of the combine, 41-year-old Adam Kepley, of Chanute, was not injured.